OT: Fuck Rolling Stone
misterorange
Kamala, you're FIRED!
Fuck all the mainstream polls. This is the TUSCL poll. If you had only 10 albums to listen to for the rest of your life, what would they be? I think we've had similar discussions on top artists, or top songs, but I'm talking about complete albums, start to finish. (I was gonna ask for 5, but realized that was too restrictive when I started putting together my own list).
Think about the entire body of music out there during your lifetime or before you were born. No particular order, just your top 10. And no "greatest hits" albums. Only original releases.
Mine would be:
1. Boston "Boston"
2. Billy Joel "52nd Street"
3. Eagles "Hotel California"
4. Led Zeppelin 4
5. Pink Floyd "The Wall"
6. AC/DC "Back in Black"
7. Scorpions "Love at First Sting"
8. Metallica "Metallica" (The Black Album)
9. Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers"
10. The Cars "The Cars"
10 probably isn't enough, so feel free to go beyond 10.
Here's a few "honorable mentions"
Journey "Escape"
Foreigner "4"
Bob Marley and the Wailers "Catch a Fire"
Meat Loaf "Bat out of Hell"
Michael Jackson "Thriller"
The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Think about the entire body of music out there during your lifetime or before you were born. No particular order, just your top 10. And no "greatest hits" albums. Only original releases.
Mine would be:
1. Boston "Boston"
2. Billy Joel "52nd Street"
3. Eagles "Hotel California"
4. Led Zeppelin 4
5. Pink Floyd "The Wall"
6. AC/DC "Back in Black"
7. Scorpions "Love at First Sting"
8. Metallica "Metallica" (The Black Album)
9. Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers"
10. The Cars "The Cars"
10 probably isn't enough, so feel free to go beyond 10.
Here's a few "honorable mentions"
Journey "Escape"
Foreigner "4"
Bob Marley and the Wailers "Catch a Fire"
Meat Loaf "Bat out of Hell"
Michael Jackson "Thriller"
The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
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Led Zepplin 4
James Brown "Live at the Apollo"
Johnny Cash "At Folsom Prison"
Michael Jackson "Thriller"
Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run"
Nirvana "Nevermind"
Jimi Hendrix "Are you Experienced"
The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"
Garth Brooks "No Fences"
John Coltrane And Thelonious Monk "At Carnegie Hall"
Charles Mingus "Mingus Ah Um"
Robert Johnson "King of the Delta Blues Singers"
Albert King "Born Under a Bad Sign"
Prince "Purple Rain"
Stevie Wonder "Songs in the Key of Life"
Johnny Cash "At Folsom Prison" is one I missed. I guess if I was stranded forever, Folsom Prison Blues would help get me by.
Depeche Mode, Violator
Depeche Mode, Songs of Faith and Devotion
No Doubt, Trajic Kingdom
Janet Jackson, Rythm Nation
U2, The Joshua Tree
Def Leppard, Hysteria
Café Tacvba, RE
Mana, Amar Es Combatir
Nirvana, Nevermind
rolling stones some girls
van halen fair warning
dire straits alchemy
queen the game
judas priest unleashed in the east
Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus
Stones, Let It Bleed - Sticky Fingers - Some Girls - Get your Ya Yas Out
Eagles, Desperado
Pink Floyd, The Wall
Derek and the Dominos, Layla
Bob Seger, Night Moves
Dylan's Soundtrack, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
Something from U2 and The Cure
The above quickly came to mind. There are so many others.
Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds"
Rolling Stones, "Exile on Main Street"
David Bowie, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
Sex Pistols, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols"
Jam, "Sound Affects
Helium, "The Dirt of Luck"
Blur, "Parklife"
Cibo Matto, "Viva! La Woman"
Billie Eilish, "When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"
Groove Armada - Black Light
Ministry - Twitch
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Nas - Illmatic
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
Police - Reggatta De Blanc
Here are 10 albums that I don't have to skip a single song ON ANY OF THEM and they cover just about any possible mood I could be in.
For the few hip-hop heads on here, I love anything produced by DJ Premier or Alchemist. So many times these two have turned shitty rappers with shitty verses into classic songs just by their production work.
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Yes - Yessongs
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Joy division - Closer
REM - Murmer
Pixies - Doolittle
Bjork - Greatest Hits
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
My toughest omissions: Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man...(1969), Laura Nyro - Eli & The 13th Confession (1968), Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees (1976), Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette (1973), Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 (1985).
Then there are Artists (or groups) whose total contribution to my enjoyment of music surpass some or many of the above, but not within the original OP's restraints: CCR, Eric Clapton, Al Green, Otis Redding, & The Rolling Stones.
My #1 all time - Quadrophenia, the Who
I was on the front steps walking into a HS house party and some hot (ok slutty) N.E. Philly girls were leaving - then the Cars came blasting on and one of the Philly girls said “The Cars!” and they all scurried back in. I had never heard of them, but loved them after that.
2. A Tribe Called Quest-Midnight Marauders
3. A Tribe called Quest- Low End Theory
4. Def Leppard-Hysteria
5. Genesis-Invisible Touch
6.Fleetwood Mac- Rumors
7. Peter Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive
8. The Police-Ghost in the Machine
9. The Police-Synchronicty
10. Phil Collins-No Jacket Required
I’m probably leaving stuff off but that just off the top of my head
AC/DC - Back in Black. Kills me to not have a Bon Scott album but their best songs with him are spread over too many albums
Van Halen - Diver Down. Most good songs
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Eminem - The Eminem Show tough call here
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Bob Marley - Exodus
Collective Soul - self titled
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Kanye West - Graduation
Voted first off the island:
Metallica - Black album. Again, most good songs
Rush - Moving Pictures
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
Korn - Follow the Leader
Rage Against the Machine - debut
Christina Aguilera- Stripped
Doors - LA Woman
Def Leppard - High n Dry
Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys
Queen - Queen II
George Michael - Listen without Prejudice Vol 1
Juice Wrld - Goodbye & Good Riddance
U2 - Achtung Baby
Khalid - Free Spirit
The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
no homo, or at least I think not
I saw them in '82, Ghost in the Machine tour, at Byrne Arena in NJ (later renamed Continental Airlines Arena) which was brand new at the time. Reggae band Black Uhuru opened for them. None of us had ever heard of them and weren't paying much attention when they came on stage. 2 songs and a couple joints later, we were mesmerized for the rest of the set. Back then you could smoke weed at an indoor concert without getting hassled. They were the perfect opening act before the Police. That was 40 years ago and they're still among my favorite bands.
I agree. If forced to choose one from the Bon Scott era I'd say Highway to Hell. Pretty great all the way through, but I like a lot of their earlier stuff.
misterorange: Thanks for the mental exercise!
I personally can’t stand Guns N Roses and Green Day but I totally understand why people love them. I love Rush and I’m sure there’s tons of people here that dislike them as well.
Few observations:
1. You can most likely tell the age of everyone by the albums they picked.
2. When did these albums influence you? The majority of my picks (8 of the 10) were albums that were released OR that I discovered when I was a teenager (12 to 19 year old).
3. Any bands that haven’t shown up yet that surprise you? I may be missing where some one listed them and I missed it but:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Public Enemy
No rap albums released after 2000 with the exception of Eminem
2Pac
Notorious BIG
Tom Petty
Cure
Beatles solo work
- again sorry if someone is on my list above that I missed...
Agree with the age thing, Lol. I'm 54.
Hotel California was the first vinyl record I ever owned, and I think it was a hand-me-down from my older cousin. Must have listened to it a thousand times. When cassette tapes became popular, I got a crappy portable tape player for Christmas and one cassette. It was the Cars Candy-O. (My parents probably didn't take a good look at the artwork, or they wouldn't have bought it for a 12 year old https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e…) Still love that album but over the years I came to think the debut album was their absolute best.
Rush - Power Windows (1985)
Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime (1989)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)
The Who - Who's Next (1971)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind (1983)
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance (1982)
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)
I went with no Greatest Hits albums or live albums, but a couple of live album honorable mentions:
Deep Purple - Made In Japan (1972)
The Who - Live at Leeds (expanded version)(1970)
Iron Maiden - Live After Death (1985)
I think it was a rough start for Black Uhuru - as they were tossing albums to the crowd - and the crowd was initially too sing them back! LOL!
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
REM - Murmur, Reckoning
The Clash - London Calling
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Post Malone - Beer bongs and Bentleys
Peter Gabriel - So
Korn - Untouchables
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby
I couldn’t stop when I got to U2.
Led Zep Houses of the Holy almost made my cut and was hard to leave off.
Both your REM albums are solid. Almost making the cut for me were Life's Rich Pageant, and to slightly lesser extent Automatic for the People.
Was hard for me to leave off U2 The Unforgettable Fire, but Achtung Baby made the cut barely ahead of it.
Glad to see someone else say Post Malone. My fave song off that album is Sugar Wraith but there's no bad song on that album. Your fave on that album is?
I think the album Beerbongs & Bentleys is a great piece of work. My favorite song is Better Now. I know it’s pop - but it’s smooth and it’s a cool way he seems to deal with a break up. I like Zack and codeine too - as I thought the lyrics were about fucking Cardi B - but that was just my poor hearing!